Mikhl Yashinsky leads a community read, featuring selections from the original Yiddish stories of his new translation, Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes.

Elad Schlesinger explores how rabbinic journals served as a stage for intense halakhic and ideological debate while also fostering global connectivity and a sense of scholarly universality.

Elissa Sampson, Jennifer Young, and Felicia Bevel, in a conversation led by Kate Rosenblatt, tell the story of the International Workers Order (IWO), an organization founded in 1930 to provide life, burial, and health insurance to its members.

Rebecca Kobrin chronicles how Jewish immigrants established innovative banking networks that not only financed their own communities’ migration and economic advancement, but also transformed broader American commercial banking practices, in a discussion led by Annie Polland.

Mariusz Kalczewiak, in a talk led by Miriam Mora, explores how religion, class divisions, antisemitism, new domesticity, and militarization changed masculine ideas and practices in Eastern Europe between the 1890s and 1930s.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Reclaim your heritage as you examine the life that was lived in these lands. View the remarkable history of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

This lecture by Zvi Gitelman traces the twentieth-century transformation of Russian Jewry, shaped by war, revolution, cultural upheaval, and mass emigration.

This lecture by Rebekka Voß will trace the journey of the legendary Ten Lost Tribes of Israel through both Jewish and Christian imaginations, from their medieval origins to their presence in Old Yiddish and modern Yiddish literature.

Explore the various layers of old Otwock with Benny Mer-Majersdorf, who uses poetry, prose, and pictures to lead a virtual exploration of this Warsaw suburb.

From the renowned Sarajevo Haggadah to the old Jewish synagogues of the Adriatic coast, from the charming lanes of Osijek to the legendary Old Town of Mostar, this trip will offer a revealing look at the little-known but fascinating history of Jews in the Balkans and their resilience in the face of centuries of conflict and upheaval.

Using newly discovered items and evidence from written sources, Claudia Rosenzweig explores the previously unknown history of Yiddish literature in Italy.

Daria Vakhrushova explores the transformation of Yiddish from a "zhargon" into an official Soviet national language, examining how language policy and Russian influence shaped the language.

Nathan Cohen examines the evolution of the Yiddish almanac from a traditional calendar into a "condensed encyclopedia," exploring how nineteenth-century publishers used the format to disseminate literature and modern ideas while elevating Yiddish.